1. The first and foremost priority project of GIBS revolves around faith-based collaborative work with Pastor Dr. Dwayne Milioni, Lead Pastor of Open Door Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina to promote to the glory of God christian stewardship of Falls Lake, Neuse River, and Pamlico-Albermarle Sounds both in the Inner Banks and Outer Banks of North Carolina, involving the church communities and their pastors. The goal here is to make the church a "stake-holder" in the decision-making of the NC government and legislature by holding workshops and symposia. 2. Deep-Sea Coral Reefs Project (DESCOR): GIBS has an ongoing research project for conservation and protection of deep-coral reefs on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean, with research on Lophelia reefs on Blake Plateau off US Southeastern coast and Lophelia reefs in the Archipelago south of Norway in Skagerrak in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Research on Blake Plateau deep-sea coral reefs is done in collaboration with John Reed of Harbor Branch Oceanography Institute and research on Scandinavian Lophelia reefs is done in the summers in collaboration with Tomas Lundalv of the Tjarnoe Marine Biology Laboratories in Sweden. 3. Presently GIBS is developing projects with US National Science foundation for conduction research on marine acid rains and its impact on growth and calcification.   4. In addition, with Prof. Bruce Little, Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for faith and Culture of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina we seek to promote christian stewardship of ecosystems (public parks, lakes, etc) in land, river, coast, and ocean that are currently abused by human exploitations. GIBS is taking seriously the written appeals in books by Christian scientists like Dr. Francis Collins, Harvard conservation scientist Edward O. Wilson, late theologian Francis Schaffer and late biology professors Dixy Lee Ray (my former mentor at the University of Washington) an late Prof. Garrett Hardin who wrote the famous appeal in an article in SCIENCE on the "Tragedy of Commons."